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Post by honksillet » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:10 PM UTC

Let’s this be a reminder to delete me your Facebook apps.

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Post by actusual » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:11 PM UTC

tracyhenry wrote: post #31

And HackerNews seems to be much faster as soon as FB is back up. Not sure if this is just me.

I'm experiencing this as well.

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Post by zwog » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:11 PM UTC

rodmena wrote: post #4

Nothing important for the world. But at least the employees could be able to enter the building.

That's a pretty ignorant statement. Facebook and its services, especially Whatsapp, are the most widespread form of communication in many countries. Particularly in poor/developing countries, hardly anything else is used because mobile Internet is available cheaply, unlike voice services and SMS. Whatsapp is indispensable there.

See https://www.statista.com/statistics/291540/mobile-internet-u... for example.

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Post by andrewxdiamond » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:11 PM UTC

nazgulsenpai wrote: post #34

Did this have any impact on Occulus users? I know the big Facebook login controversy -- this might have been a good example of why that's a horrible idea.

FB services were down, and new device registration was unavailable, but the devices can be used offline, so this didn't brick them

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Post by azta6521 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:11 PM UTC

I wished facebook would have been down for a week and people would get a glimpse into a different world.

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Post by toper-centage » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:11 PM UTC

davide_v wrote: post #26

mbStavola wrote: post #21

Damn, nothing good ever lasts huh? Even if it was only a few hours things have significantly improved in my life in the period it went down. Zero anti-vax spam from FB sent to me via texts from older relatives.

"only a few hours" for Facebook is literally billions.

But 6 hours for Facebook is proportionally the same as 6 hours to anyone. If 6 hours is a billion to them, they still made 3 billion

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Post by paxys » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:11 PM UTC

type_Ben_struct wrote: post #12

grzracz wrote: post #5

Can't wait for the post mortem technical post

If past outages are anything to go by there’s no chance of this seeing the light of day.

This one will definitely see the light of day considering how big a deal it is. Shareholders could easily sue over it.

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Post by chidog12 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:11 PM UTC

The Post-mortem is gonna be guarded by 24/7 manned security lol

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Post by DocFeind » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:12 PM UTC

Not really though

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Post by itslennysfault » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:12 PM UTC

tracyhenry wrote: post #31

And HackerNews seems to be much faster as soon as FB is back up. Not sure if this is just me.

Probably Facebook trackers. I noticed a lot of apps (including my own) having major slowness on initial load while they were down. My assumption is it was their tracking code timing out.